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Serial ATA (SATA or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives. Serial ATA was designed to replace the older ATA (AT Attachment) standard (also known as EIDE), offering many advantages over the older parallel ATA (PATA) interface.

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What could prevent hdd hot-swap in linux ahci?

I'm tearing my hair out over this issue. I wanted to add a hotswap bay to my homeserver to easily add and remove HDD such as to easily rotate off-site backups. The mainboard in question is an Asrock J4105-ITX motherboard with four native SATA ports,…
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Disk issues: irq_stat 0x20000000, host bus error

When copying large files (50+GB) from an NVMe disk to a SATA 7200rpm HDD disk I see the following error in the logs on a fully patched Ubuntu 20.04: Aug 08 00:45:59 host kernel: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x20 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Aug…
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Is it possible to coonect the power to the sata power slot on a PCIE card from HPE ProLiant DL360p Gen8 server?

This is my first server and I never had one before... I recently need to use USB 3.0 for external HDD but there is none on this server, all USB 2.0. So I bought a "3 Ports USB 3.0 with 1Gbps Gigabit Ethernet Controller PCIe Expansion…
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Hard resetting link, limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps from non-existent disk

Good morning! Can anyone help me with a strange problem that I have in my Debian 8.8 Jessie server? I'm having these messages in my syslog: [lun may 24 10:23:09 2021] ata9: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [lun may 24 10:23:09 2021] ata9: hard…
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LVM PV missing on boot - dropped to initramfs shell

I rebooted my ubuntu 20.10 server today and it suddenly started complaining that it cannot find one of the PVs in the root LV After some digging around in the shell that it dropped me to I could see that the PV was indeed missing. I couldn't…
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Integrated Raid Controller Dieds

I have an HP ProLiant ml110 G3 with an sata raid controller intrgrated in the motherboard. Few days ago the controller died. Can I use sata ports without the raid?
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CRC error in several compressed files

I have a server which backs up itself on another server with duplicity (actually duply). The full backup is about 330 1-GB files. The full backup finished without problems, but the next day the incremental terminated with "CRC check failed". On the…
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HP Proliant cannot find Seagate SATA HDD

1785-Slot X Drive Array Not Configured (HP Proliant ML10 v2 cannot recognize Seagate 1Gb SATA HDD) I have a HP Proliant ML10 v2 and a Seagate 1TB SATA HDD. My computer cannot recognize the HDD so I cannot install Window now. Every time I boot it up,…
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AHCI - Will be two HDDs (SSDs) two times faster?

Lets take common numbers: SATA HDD - 120Mb/s read, write speed heavily depends on gaps in sequence SATA SSD - 550Mb/s read, 500Mb/s write PCIe SSD - 2500Mb/s read, 1500Mb/s write Lets assume they are connected to AHCI controller (not RAID…
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HP DL360 G5 and using 3.5" sata drives OR USB

I have a HP DL360 G5 (1x 4core CPU, 4gb Ram, 4x 36gb SAS Hdd's) I am looking for some advice. This server is just for home use to run some VM's with ESXI 5.1 for my home network and some testing of new OS's etc. I would like to be able to add some…
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Options for SATA ports on motherboard for Files server

I am planning to build a big file server. (Windows or FreeNAS). I need at lease 300T of space. what options do I have to RAID all disks together? I mean on physical level what kind of connection topology can I use? what kind of devices support such…
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SAS SCSI Converter

I recentely bought a Seagate Cheetah 146GB SAS ST3146755SS 10K Performance 15K RPM Hard Drive from EBAY and do have a computer that supports SAS. The problem is that I need to convert it into a SATA connection. I've found several adapters on EBAY,…
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How does plugging in a SATA drive to an SAS backplane affect maximum cable length?

The limit on SATA cable length is 1m, whereas the limit on SAS cable length is 10m. When using a backplane which advertises support for SAS and SATA, with a SAS RAID controller and one SATA drive, will the controller use the SAS PHY scheme,…
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How to arrange 2 SSD with 2 SATA?

I like to have best io performance as well as good capaciyy and reliability out of a server that hosts a busy forum, which involves loads of static files download. I am wondering what is the best plan to format and use the disks given that the…
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K8NDRE motherboard in server fails to complete BIOS load with error 0078

K8NDRE motherboard with 4 sata drives, was running fine. Drives had raid-0 and raid-1 partitions, using mdadm. The onboard raid is disabled. Upon reformatting the drives, setting a new partition structure and new raid partitions, the bios fails…
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